Signs

After class on Thursday and doing the reading on signs, signifiers, and signified I started thinking about all of them. What if all we had were words and no symbols? For example, if we just had the letters d o g that we know to form dog but no image or anything to go with it. We even did the exercise on finding symbols in media texts. We rely on symbols for everything. We have words that we automatically put a symbol to it. How would we know what things were? Or what if we had symbols but no words or meanings to put with them? It's amazing how much we rely on symbols and signs to put things together and find meanings to everything. Just imagine life with no signs/symbols. We would not understand everything, probably not much of anything actually.